i better blog early so i can get my sleep on. after work today, i went to go work out, then met up with jeff to get some pho, then boba at tapioca express, then watched goldmember. as for getting things done, it couldn't have gone more smoothly. got to the pho restaurant, food came out quick, and was good. got to the boba place, boba came out fast, and got a nice place to sit. got to the movie theater, and found the best parking spot ever just a few steps from the box office. didn't have to wait in line, just went in, found good seats. and comedies are better enjoyed in a crowded theater, and the theater eventually got filled by the time movie started. got home before midnight, and that's perfect cause i gotta wake up by 7:30 tomorrow.



pretty smooth huh? only complaint about tonight was the movie. some hilarious scenes, and some where original, but the story was awful, and there were scenes that just weren't funny at all. these scenes are usually cut, and put into the deleted scenes section on the DVD. but it looked like an unedited version. here are my two theories on why this happened. 1. They gave Mike Powers too much control. or 2, the movie was rushed. If you remember way back when....I think last year, a teaser was released for Goldmember, and the teaser dissappeared for a few months. If you went to the austin powers 3 website, it was there for a very short while and it dissappeared. what happened was the james bond people didn't like how the movie was too much like Goldfinger, and until legal things ($$) was ironed out, they had to put everything on hold. So the website was removed and the teaser was pulled for a few months. Amazon updated their web page, and the word "Goldmember" seemed to be a dream, and it was just being called Austin Powers 3 while it was going on. It could also have been that the movie script was too much like Goldmember, so they had to make big changes as well. And what you see in the theaters now is a rushed script and a rush edit job. If they had more time, they definitely would have edited some of those scenes out. The jokes just didn't work.



I would only recommend this movie to Austin Powers fan who enjoyed Austin Powers up to part 2. I own 1 & 2 on DVD, and I'm definitely not buying this one. The budget was $68 million or something like that. Double what Austin Powers 2 had. And exponentially larger than 1. They had a lot of cameo's. Tom Cruise, Gweneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, Danny Devito, Britney Spears, and Steven Spielberg. If all the cameo's read the rest of the script, they would have never gone for the cameo role. I guess they thought they were gonna be cool and do a cameo for a cool movie (like.....that one low buge funny movie with big name cameos...ummm...), little do they know, the movie itself is pretty much a joke. Fred Savage had a part. He basically played a spaz. I don't think the script writers liked Fred Savage that much. His part was some awful "I hate Fred Savage" joke, that Fred Savage just didn't get. I guess he's desperate to get some parts.



man, i'm typing with daggers for fingers today. good thing i'm not a professional movie critic. the fred savage secret army might come and get me......gnite.